In December 2010, a mysterious banjo tune popped up on a website devoted to early recordings. Even by that definition, this song stood out. It dated back to when Grover Cleveland occupied the White ...

In December 2010, a mysterious banjo tune popped up on a website devoted to early recordings. Even by that definition, this song stood out. It dated back to when Grover Cleveland occupied the White ...

The American Banjo Museum is gearing up for the return of a holiday tradition, A Candy Cane Christmas, on December 7.

"I felt, in writing this piece, that there was an openness, or a kind of a renewed freshness, I had working with music materials, because I was working in a new form. It took out all the cobwebs in ...

After brain surgery, tremor-stricken banjo legend is picking again. Oct. 3, 2008 — -- Eddie Adcock's fast picking and unconventional style made him world famous as a bluegrass banjo innovator.

The banjo is typically reserved for folksy country songs, but the instrument can be pretty versatile (even if it still totally sounds like it should be on a folk song). These 11 bands channeled their ...

The Musical Quarterly, founded in 1915 by Oscar Sonneck, has long been cited as the premier scholarly musical journal in the United States. Over the years it has published the writings of many ...

Saturday afternoon’s performance by banjo duo Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn had the longest line of any I’d seen at this year’s Big Ears Festival. They are a popular, signature act for this year’s ...

Steve Martin, movie star, hasn’t had a film credit for two years and has no feature projects on the horizon. A celebrated author, Martin’s last book was the critically acclaimed 2010 novel “An Object ...